How to Read Dump File?
Follow These Steps to Open and Analyze a Dump File in Windows 10: Click Search in the Taskbar and Type Windbg, Right-Click Windbg and Select Run as...
Follow these steps to open and analyze a Dump file in Windows 10:
- Click Search in the Taskbar and type WinDbg,
- Right-click WinDbg and select Run as administrator.
- Click the File menu.
- Click Start debugging.
- Click Open Dump file.
- Select the Dump file from the folder location – for example, %SystemRoot%\Minidump.
How do I analyze a DMP file?
Analyze dump file
- Open Start.
- Search for WinDbg, right-click the top result, select the Run as administrator option. ...
- Click the File menu.
- Click on Start debugging.
- Select the Open sump file option. ...
- Select the dump file from the folder location – for example, %SystemRoot%\Minidump .
- Click the Open button.
What do dump files tell you?
Also known as a memory dump file or a crash dump file, a dump file is a digital record of information related to a specific crash. Among other things, it shows what processes and drivers that were running at the time of the crash as well as the Kernel-mode stack that stopped.